Veiller sur elle by Jean-Baptiste Andrea

Published 2023 · 433 pages · 117,680 words · about 8 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction

How hard is Veiller sur elle to read?

Veiller sur elle scores 57 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Vocabulary: 58 out of 100
French vocabulary.
Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
Lemaitre prose.
Abstraction: 60 out of 100
Art, Italy, secrets.
Information density: 60 out of 100
Italian setting.
Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
Third person.
Symbolic density: 58 out of 100
Watching, protecting.
Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
Engaged narrative.
Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
Mystery resolved.
Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
Linear narrative.

How Veiller sur elle is regarded

Veiller sur elle holds a literary regard score of 65 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.

About the author

Jean-Baptiste Andrea